George Eliot Quotes

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. - George Eliot

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. - George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. - George Eliot

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. - George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. - George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? - George Eliot

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? - George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories. - George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

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